The contents of a .pickle file are clearly invalid. But the .pickle file is a transient thing, used during the emerge command but built from soemthing else. Does anybody with inner knowledge of emerge processing have any idea which file(s) could be corrupt?_________________Regards,

You'll have to do that one and see what else may need fixing._________________Brian
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